Recently Published Books: "Eid al-Riyad" by Boulos Salama

"Eid al-Riyad" by Boulos Salama

A massive, elegantly produced book of some 600 pages — the tales of the events and wars that swept, one after another, over the Arabian Peninsula, ending with the late King Abdulaziz Al Saud firmly established in power. It is the epic of the Arabs and of heroic deeds, and a eulogy of the House of Saud for courage, might, bounty, and magnanimity...

The poet Boulos Salama prefaced his epic with a study of the nature of epic and romantic poetry, and prepared the way for the long excursions before whose marvel the reader stands with folded arms! And while complaint rises on every side about the short breath of writers and poets in this age, our wounded poet defies that saying with an epic equal, by his own account, to half the Iliad of Homer.

May God prolong the life of our great master, that he may enrich our Arabic library with his abundant, exalted production...